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BMI Group inaugurates the «Roof Top Series», a series of rooftop talks with the discussion "Let's dream! A new look at the roof". The event will take place on 16 June at MINIM and will be broadcast on streaming.

The debate, moderated by Diana Torres, from Grupo BMI, will include the participation of Fermín Vázquez, founding partner of b720; Izaskun Chinchilla, founding partner of Izaskun Chinchilla Architects and Pablo Olalquiaga, Vice-Dean of the Official College of Architects of Madrid.

Lets Dream a new look at the cover by BMI Group. Visualization by Fermín Vázquez, Izaskun Chinchilla y Pablo Olalquiaga.

The roof as the fifth façade of the building has evolved considerably in recent times. Based on some well-known projects, the guests will reflect on its function and its future.

BMI Group launches the «Roof Top Series» with a panel discussion on the roof as the fifth building façade. Diana Torres, Fermín Vázquez, Izaskun Chinchilla, and Pablo Olalquiaga will reflect on its function and future based on some well-known projects in which the pitched roof and the use of tiles have been the most successful technical and aesthetic solutions.

Roofs have undergone a great evolution in recent times and the tile is the traditional architectural solution used to form them. However, today it is still integrated into contemporary architecture and is an icon of Mediterranean architecture, due to its results and ability to adapt to new styles. The speakers will discuss its use through examples of new buildings in which the tile stands out for its design and aesthetics, as well as its adaptability to the passage of time. Elements such as durability, low maintenance, energy efficiency, safety, indoor air quality, and building comfort set roof tiles apart from other materials.

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BMI Group. Lead architects.- Fermín Vázquez, Izaskun Chinchilla y Pablo Olalquiaga.

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16th June 2022 (7pm.-9pm).

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MINIM. La Castellana Street, 92-Madrid.

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FERMÍN VÁZQUEZ. b720

Fermín Vázquez Huarte-Mendicoa (Madrid, 1961) architect since 1988. He studied at ETSAM (Madrid) and ETSAB (Barcelona). He leads b720 Fermín Vázquez Architects, which he set up with Ana Bassat in 1997, with offices in Barcelona, Madrid, Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre.

b720 is an international studio. It works globally within its offices in Brasil and Spain, in projects located in a dozen of differents countries.

The work of the studio, which has been showed in several events and museums as the Biennal of Venice, the Cité of París and MoMA of NY, has been awarded nationally and internationally with several prizes, among there are two RIBA Awards, a World Architecture Festival award, four awards ASPRIMA-SIMA, the Emporis Skyscraper Award and the European Public Urban Space award.

Among his best-known projects there are the Agbar Tower -with Jean Nouvel Architectures-, Lérida's airport, the Plaza del Torico in Teruel, La Mola Conference Centre in Barcelona, the City of Justice of Barcelona and the building for de America Cup in Valencia -both with David Chipperfield Architects- and the Gran Casino Costa Brava in Lloret de Mar. Currently working, among other projects, on the new Mercat dels Encants in Barcelona, the new international airport of Cuzco in Perú, the regeneration of the Waterfront of Cais Mauá of Porto Alegre, a new neighbourhood for 70.000 residents in Brasilia and in several high buildings in Sao Paulo.

He usually combines the proffesional practise with teaching. He has been teacher at ETSAB, at l'École d'Architecture et Paysage de Burdeos, at Universidad Europea de Madrid and he has given courses and conferences large universities and institutions all over the world.

Rafael Olalquiaga Soriano, Pablo Olalquiaga Bescós, Alfonso Olalquiaga Bescós. OLALQUIAGA ARQUITECTOS

Rafael Soriano Olalquiaga an architect from the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid in 1963 and Doctor Architect by the same School in 1967. He collaborated for nearly forty years with the architect Ramón Vázquez Molezún. In 1993 he established the study Olalquiaga Architects.

Pablo Olalquiaga Bescós an architect from the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid in 1997. He is currently finishing his doctoral thesis on the Huarte House Corrales and Molezún. He collaborated in studies Alison & Peter Smithson David Chipperfield Architects and Architects in London. Professor of Analysis of Forms II between 2000 and 2005 at the University Alfonso X el Sabio of Madrid. Professor Professor 3rd year Project and Thesis since 2005.

Alfonso Olalquiaga Bescós an architect from the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid in 2005 with distinction in the final project. In 2010 he made the Master in Advanced Architectural Design of Projects Departments E.T.S.A. from Madrid. Professor Project 3rd year at the University Alfonso X el Sabio of Madrid since 2007.

Izaskun Chinchilla

Izaskun Chinchilla. Graduated Architect since 2001 from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain). She is driving her own office since 2001 in Madrid. She has a long experience in education. She is Senior Teaching Fellow and Researcher in Barlett School of Architecture (UCL London, UK). She has also teached in Ecole Special (Paris, France) and in HEAD University (Geneva, Switzerland) and was Studio Professor in the University of Alicante (Escuela de Arquitectura Universidad de Alicante) from 2002 to 2007. At the moment, she teaches in Madrid University (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) and in Instituto de Empresa (Madrid, Spain). Her designer activity is acompanied by a research project called “Social and Aesthetic Repercussions of technical topics and solutions which take ecology into account” and that has taken her as visitting scholar to Columbia University in New York (2002), Ecole de Mines de Paris (2003) and Princeton University in New Jersey (2004) and also to the Institut d´Arquitectura Avancada de Catalunya (Barcelona), in a Postgraduate Master (2003-2007).

Published on: June 13, 2022

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